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brought  with  him  letters  written  by  his  pupils 
and  read  them  to  the  old  Cherokees.  _  The  lat- 
ter were  now  convinced  that  he  had  discovered 
the  method  of  talking  on  paper,  and  became 
his  pupil?.  This  alphabet  was  afterward  im- 
proved by  Bondinot  and  others ;  but  Dick 
Guess  was  its  real  father.  His  home  was  in 
what  is  now  Knox's  Quarter,  near  Alpine, 
Georgia. — Doylestoicn  Democrat.- 


— The  history  of  the  well-known  "  Bartlett 
"  Pear  "'  is  thus  given  by  the  Boston  Traveller. 
Mr.  Enoch  Bartlett,  who  owned  the  Bartlett 
estate  in  Dorchester,  now  Boston  Highlands, 
was  Vice-president  of  the  Massachusetts  Hor- 
ticultural Society,  for  many  years,  and  was  an 
eminent  horticulturist.  Some  forty  years  ago, 
he  brought  from  this  estate  to  one  of  the  meet- 
ings, a  choice  pear,  never  before  seen  by  the 
members.  Mr.  Bartlett  and  the  members  of 
the  Society  supposed  it  to  be  a  seedling  pair; 
and,  out  of  regard  to  Mr.  Bartlett,  it  was 
named  the  "  Bartlett  Pear."  But,  in  point  of 
fact,  this  was  merely  an  old  English  pear,  well 
known  there  as  "William's  Good  Christian  ;" 
and  it  had  been  imported  by  Mr.  T.  Brewer,  who 
built  the  Bartlett  house  and  laid  out  the 
grounds,  some  time  about  the  year  1815.  But 
the  estate  having  been,  after  a  few  years,  sold, 
and  passing  into  other  hands,  the  history  of 
the  tree  was  not  known  until  Mr.  Bartlett's  in- 
troduction of  it  to  the  Massachusetts  Horti- 
cultural Society  made  it  famous. — Albany 
Art/us. 


early  and  powerful  Sermons.  Near  it,  several 
of  his  children,  now  famous,  were  born.  The 
pulpit  of  the  Church  is  in  the  possession  of 
the  Long  Island  Historical  Society,  in  Brook- 
lyn.— N.  T.  Observer. 


VIII.— NOTES. 

Kid,  Kidnapper. — The  following  definitions, 
from  Bailey's  Dictionary,  have  an  historical  in- 
terest as  well  as  a  philological  one.  They 
show  some  of  the  popular  impressions  that  pre- 
vailed in  England,  at  the  beginning  of  the 
last  century. 

"  Kid,  formerly,  one  trepanned  "  [i.  e.  en- 
trapped]  "  by  kidnappers ;  now,  one  who  is 
"  bound  apprentice,  here,"  [England,]  "in  or- 
"  der  to  be  transported  to  the  English  colonie„ 
"  in  America." 

"Kidnapper,  a  person  who  makes  it  his 
"  business  to  decoy  either  Children  or  young 
"  Persons,  to  send  them  to  the  'English  planta- 
"  tions  in  America.'" 

S.  A.  G. 
Boston. 


— The  old  Presbyterian-church,  at  Easthamp- 
ton,  Long  Island,  where  Drs.  Buel,  and  Lyman 
Beecher,  and  others  delivered  the  Gospel,  in 
years  long  gone  by,  has  at  last  been  levelled  to 
the  earth.  "When  the  new  house  of  worship 
was  erected,  nearly  twenty  years  ago,  the  old 
one  was  sold ;  and  it  has  been  decaying  and 
unused  ever  since.  At  last,  the  frame  has  been 
taken  down,  and  the  place  that  knew  it  will 
know  it  no  more,  forever. 

It  was   erected  in  1717.      Its  history  would 
be  the  record  of  glorious  displays  of  the  pow- 
der of  God,  in  the  preaching  of  his  Word,  revi- 
vals of  religion,  conversions  of  multitudes,  and 
-  the  growth  of  successive  generations  of  intelli- 
Q  gent  Christians.     It  was  in  this  church  that  Dr. 
if)Buel,  when  speaking  of  the  aggravated  guilt 
.    of  those  who  would  perish  under  such   privi- 
LT. leges  as  they  there  enjoyed,  once  said  .  "  In  the 
_.  "  last  day,  when  the  world  is  assembled  before 
**<'  its  Judge,  the  cry  will  go  up,  ■  Make  room  ! 
"'make   room!    an   Easthampton    sinner  has 
'"  come  to  judgment !'  " 


Old  Point  Monument. — In  1689,  Sebastian 
Rasle,  a  man  of  good  sense,  sound  learning,  and 
address,  belonging  to  a  respectable  family  in 
France,  was  appointed  a  Jesuit  Missionary  to 
the  Norridgewock  Indians.  He  consented,  to 
relinquish  the  pleasures  of  refined  and  polished 
society,  and  to  live  with  the  Indians,  thirty- 
five  years,  in  their  rude  huts  and  on  their  scan- 
ty fare. 

He  was  killed  and  scalped,  and  his  Church, 
built  by  the  Government  of  Massachusetts,  of 
hewn  timber,  was  burned,  on  the  twenty-third 
of  August,  1724.  His  body  was  buried  by 
some  of  his  converts,  who  escaped  the  general 
destruction  of  their  tribe ;  and  a  wooden  cross 
erected  over  the  grave,  near  the  place  of  the 
altar.  This  cross  was  standing,  in  1774,  when 
this  place  was  first  settled  by  a  small  Colony 
from  Massachusetts.  The  place  was  often  visit- 
ed by  travellers  of  distinction,  such  as  Gover- 
nors, Judges,  and  men  of  distinguished  reputa- 
tion. But,  as  all  vestiges  of  the  spot  had 
nearly  disappeared,  the  Honorable  Edward 
Kavenau,  a  native  of  France ;  a  gentleman  of 
talents;  who  had  been  educated  a  Catholic; 
who  had  come  to  this  country,  before  Maine 
became  a  State,  and  become  an  adopted  citi- 
zen ;  and,  when  Maine  became  a  State,  whose 
services  were  appreciated  by  the  people  and  he 
was  repeatedly  chosen  Senator  for  the  large 
County  of  Lincoln;  and,  at  last,  was  chosen 
President  of  the  Senate.     He  became  the  act- 


It  was  in  this  church 
that  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher  preached  some  of  his '  ing  Governor  of  the  State,  after  the  death  of 


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Governor  Lincoln,  and  discharged  the  duties  of 
his  various  offices  with  ability  and  fidelity,  to 
the  satisfaction  of  all  parties. 

In  January,  1833,  being  a  member  of  Con- 
gress, he  projected  a  splendid  monument  to 
be  erected  over  the  grave  of  Rasle,  at  Old 
Point,  near  the  Northwest  corner  of  Norridge- 
wock ;  procured  an  artist  to  make  a  drawing 
of  it ;  and  sent  a  copy  to  the  Selectmen  of  this 
town.  It  was  to  be  eight  feet  square  at  the 
base ;  with  a  marble  slab  inserted,  on  the  front 
side,  to  receive  the  inscription  ;  and  to  be  seven- 
ty feet  high.  He  sent  a  copy  likewise  to  Bishop 
Fenwick,  of  Boston.  The  Bishop  approved  of 
having  a  less  costly  monument  erected;  but 
was  opposed  to  that  projected  by  Mr.  Kavenau, 
on  account  of  the  violent  prejudices  that  then 
existed  against  the  Catholics.  A  mob  in  Bos- 
ton, which  could  not  be  restrained  by  the 
police,  had,  not  long  before,  demolished  and 
burnt  their  Church  in  that  city.  That,  if  a 
costly  structure  were  erected  over  the  grave  of 
Rasle,  it  might  excite  the  existing  prejudice  so 
as  to  cause  its  destruction,  even  if  erected  by 
Mr.  Kavenau.  That,  if  it  were  practicable,  he 
would  have  a  stone  from  the  quarry  with  no 
mark  of  a  hammer  on  it — the  more  Indian-like 
the  better — but,  as  that  could  not  be  done,  he 
"would  assume  the  whole  cost  of  the  purchase 
of  a  lot,  to  contain  an  acre,  on  which  Rasle  was 
buried,  and  erect  a  monument,  to  be  four  feet 
square,  at  the  base,  covered  with  a  granite 
slab,  six  inches  thick,  four  feet  and  six  inches 
square,  with  a  granite  shaft,  four  feet  square 
at  the  base,  and  eleven  feet  high,  tapered 
to  a  round  point,  with  an  iron  cross  inserted  in 
the  top  ;  the  whole  to  be  seventeen  feet  high ; 
the  front  stone,  in  the  upper  part  of  the  base- 
ment, to  be  hewn  smooth  to  receive  an  inscrip- 
tion. All  which  was  done,  and  Bishop  Fen- 
wick  paid  the  bill;  and  the  monument  was 
erected  on  the  twenty-third  of  August,  1S33, 
in  presence  of  a  large  concourse  of  people,  in- 
cluding a  large  delegation  of  Indians,  from 
Penobscot. 

A  company  from  Bostcn  went  to  see  it,  two 
years  afterwards,  and  one,  in  a  boisterous  man- 
ner, said  that  it  would  not  be  permitted  to 
stand  a  week,  in  that  vicinity.  This  excited  the 
prejudice  of  some  who  heard  it;  and,  after  a 
Jew  days,  it  was  thrown  down.  But  it  was 
soon  after  replaced  by  Samuel  Searle,  Esq.,  and 
one  or  two  others,  at  their  expense,  being  in- 
dignant that  the  reputation  of  the  town  should 
thus  be  invaded.  All  prejudice  gradually  sub- 
sided, except  with  some  one  who  defaced  the 
Latin  inscription  and  deposited  filth  about  it. 

In  the  fall  of  1848,  a  rum-seller  in  a  neigh- 
boring town,  being  prosecuted  for  selling  rum 
in  this  town,  to  revenge  himself,  threw  clown 
the  monument,  a  second  time,  and  stole  the 


iron  cross,  as  we  have  good  reason  to  believe.  . 

In  1861,  a  party  from  Skowhegan  and  Nor" 
ridgewock  had  a  pic-nic  at  Old  Point;  raised  a 
contribution;  and  had  it  erected  a  third  time; 
and  it  still  remains,  a  harmless  memento  of  the 
place  where  the  Indian  Church  once  stood. 
The  inscription  being  unintelligible,  a  copy  in 
English  is  as  follows  : 

"Rev.  Sebastian  Rasle,  a  native  of  France, 
"  a  Missionary  of  the  Society  of  Jesuits,  at 
"first  preaching,  for  a  few  years,  to  the  Illinois 
"  and  Hurons,  afterwards,  for  thirty-four  years, 
"to  the  Abnaqies,  in  faith  and  charity  ;  a  true 
"  Apostle  of  Christ.  Undaunted  by  the  danger 
"  of  arms ;  often  testifying  that  he  was  prepar- 
"  ed  to  die  for  his  flock ;  at  length,  this  best 
"  of  Pastors  fell  amidst  arms,  at  the  destruction 
"  of  the  Village  of  Norridgewock  and  the  ruins 
"  of  his  own  Church,  in  this  very  place,  on  the 
"  twenty-third  day  of  August,  A.  D.  1724. 

"  Bishop  Fenwick,  Bishop  of  Boston,  has 
"  erected  this  monument  and  dedicated  it  to 
"  him  and  his  deceased  children,  on  the  twenty- 
"third  of  August,  A.  D.  1833,  and  to  the 
"  greater  glory  of  God."      William  Allen. 

NoRIUDGEWOCK,   Me. 


Some  or  the  Devices  phactised  in  the 
late  "war,  by  those  liable  to  military 
Service,  to  avoid  going  into  the  Army. — 
According  to  the  custom  of  the  ancients,  in 
similar  cases,  some  mutilated  some  of  the  fin- 
gers of  their  right  hands ;  some  scalded  their 
shins,  to  produce  bad  sores  ;  and  some  bound 
copper  cents  to  their  feet,  until  they  produced 
that  result.  One  woman  endeavored  to  screen 
her  son  by  bringing  the  record  of  his  birth  in 
her  Bible,  to  show  that  he  was  under  age ;  but 
she  happened  to  have  a  copy,  according  to  its 
date,  printed  later  than  the  entry  with  the  pen. 
In  some  cases,  the  date  of  the  book  had  been 
altered  by  the  hand.  One  man  made  himself 
a  place  of  concealment,  by  digging  into  the 
side  of  a  bank  of  earth,  where  he  amused  him- 
self by  playing  on  the  violin,  by  the  sound  of 
which  he  was  detected.  Some  others  found  a 
small  stream  running  between  some  hills,  and 
crossing  a  public  road.  From  this,  to  avoid  leav- 
ing any  track,  they  waded  up  the  stream  and 
dug  into  the  bank,  on  the  side  of  a  hill,  in  an 
upward  direction,  carefully  concealing  the  dirt. 
At  the  farther  end  of  their  den,  they  made  an 
opening  to  the  surface.  Over  this,  in  its  natu- 
ral position,  they  placed  a  large  hollow  tree,  for 
a  chimney.  Under  this,  they  could  have  a  fire,, 
at  night,  when,  mostly,  they  frequented  their 
burrow.  During  the  day,  they  lurked  among 
some  pine  bushes,  on  the  opposite  hill.  One 
man  put  a  partition  across  his  house,  not  far 
from  the  wall  of   one  end,   in  which  was  no- 


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window.  He  had  a  trap-door,  under  a  bed,  in 
the  main  apartment,  and  another  through  the 
floor  of  his  closet.  His  ingress  and  egress 
were  through  these;  and,  here,  he  kept  goods 
for  sale,  to  those  of  like  sentiments  with  him- 
self and  who  could  keep  his  secret.  When  his 
hiding-place  was  discovered  and  the  officers 
threatened  to  shoot  through  his  partition,  he 
surrendered.  In  one  instance,  a  man  had  a 
large  bin  for  grain,  with  a  double  bottom  and 
with  a  sufficient  space  between  the  two  for  him 
to  occupy,  through  the  day.  An  opening  was 
made  for  him  to  enter,  in  the  backside,  which 
could  be  pushed  up  to  the  wall.  His  wife  be- 
trayed his  secret,  by  always  seeming  to  keep 
near  the  box,  when  the  recruiting  officer  was 
present.  One  man  burrowed  under  the  manger 
of  his  stables.  The  outer  opening  of  his  hole 
was  under  a  pile  of  manure,  in  the  yard. 

In  unfrequented  places  and  remote  from  pub- 
lic roads,  men  assumed  the  garb  of  women  and, 
in  Summer,  worked  in  the  fields.  Some  had 
hiding-places  under  stacks  of  hay  or  straw  ; 
some  between  the  weather-boarding  and  ceiling 
of  their  log  houses;  and  some  over  the  piazzas, 
with  openings  through  the  walls,  to  enter. 

In  one  instance,  a  man  found  a  very  large 
hollow  tree,  broken  off  some  distance  from  the 
ground.  He  made  a  light  ladder  that  would 
reach  near  the  top  ;  threw  down  a  quantity  of 
dry  leaves,  inside  ;  took  up  the  ladder  and  let 
it  down  on  the  inside;  and  descended  to  the 
bottom.  By  making  a  small  hole  in  the  rind 
of  the  tree,  he  admitted  light  enough  to  work 
at  the  trade  of  a  shoe-maker.  He  took  up  and 
let  down  his  ladder,  each  way,  as  he  went  in 
and  out  of  his  place  of  confinement. 

A  great  variety  of  diseases  was  feigned — 
some  of  them  very  strange  ones,  and  such  as 
cannot  well  be  spoken  of  in  print.  One  person 
told  the  Surgeons  he  had  "  a  confliction  of  dis- 
'•  eases  as  great  as  any  man  ever  had."  One 
said  he  had  a  very  dirty  disease — he  did  not 
like  to  name  it ;  and  it  was  with  difficulty  he 
could  be  brought  to  do  it;  when  it  proved  to 
be  something  like  the  piles.  Others,  acquired 
the  ability  to  assume  the  appearance  of  these, 
at  pleasure.  One  soldier,  with  a  very  dark 
skin  and  very  much  resembling  a  negro,  though 
not  of  that  origin,  with  great  concern,  consult- 
ed with  a  friend  as  to  what  he  should  do  to 
avoid  conscription  to  the  Army.  The  friend 
advised  him  to  put  in  the  plea  of  colored 
blood — he  did  so,  and  escaped.  Some  men 
affected  to  have  kidney-diseases,  which  they 
were  never  known  to  have  before.  Some  al- 
leged impotence;  some,  being  affected  periodi- 
cally, like  the  female  sex. 

Thus,  there  was  almost  no  end  to  the  strata- 
gems, devices,  and  pleas,  to  avoid  entering  the 
Army  ,  in  addition  to  tbe  multiplied  Govern- 


ment contracts,  for  numberless  articles   of  use 
in  the  tented-field. 

Observer. 
North  Carolina. 


IX.— QUERY. 

Can  any  one  tell  me  the  name  of  the  author 
of  the  following  extract,  and  where  it  may  be 
found  i  '  S.  A.  D. 

"  Literature  is  a  ray  of  that  wisdom  which 
"  pervades  the  universe.  Like  the  sun,  it  en- 
"  lightens,  rejoices,  and  warms.  By  the  aid  of 
■'  books,  we  collect  around  us  all  things,  all 
"places,  men,  and  times.  By  them,  we  are  re- 
'  called  to  the  duties  of  human  life.  By  the 
"  sacred  example  of  greatness,  our  passions  are 
"  directed  and  we  are  aroused  to  virtue.  Liter- 
"  ature  is  the  daughter  of  heaven,  who  has 
"  descended  upon  earth  to  soften  the  evils  of 
"  life.     Have  recourse,  then,  to  books." 


X.— REPLIES. 
Tiie  Bell  of  St.  Regis,  (K  M.  II.  vii.  407). 
— The  story  of  the  Bell  of  St.  Regis  first  ap- 
peared, I  think,  in  one  of  the  Annuals,  which 
it  was  formerly  the  custom  to  publish.  It  was 
a  very  nice  story,  but  it  is  hardly  history. 
There  are  a  few  difficulties  in  regard  to  it, 
which,  at  the  time  it  was  written,  were  not  so 
glaring  as  the  mere  general  knowledge  of 
Canadian  matters  make  them  now. 

First.  In  1704,  there  was  no  individual 
known  as  St.  Regis.  This  name  is  a  short 
form  for  St.  John  Francis  Regis.  He  was  not 
canonized  till  1737;  and  the  name  "Saint" 
was  not  affixed  to  his  name  till  then. 

Second.  The  Iroquois  village  of  St.  Regis 
was  not  begun  by  Father  Gordon,  till  about 
1700;  and  the  French  were  a  little  too  busy, 
just  then,  as  well  as  too  poor,  to  send  to  France 
for  a  bell  for  Father  Gordon's  log  Chapel, 
erected  for  the  hard  cases  whom  he  took  to  the 
new  village,  to  get  them  away  from  the  cabarets 
(liquor-stores)  of  Montreal. 

Third.  The  attack  on  Deerfield,  in  1704, 
was  made  by  Lieutenant  Hertel  de  Rouville, 
with  Abenaqui  Indians,  chiefly — the  New  Eng- 
enders having  first  attacked  the  Abenaquis. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Williams  was  taken,  at  the  time ; 
and  his  Redeemed  Captive  shows  an  entire  ab- 
sence of  any  allusion  to  the  bell,  its  capture,  or 
transportation,  overland. 

The  story,  then,  is  certainly  out  of  the  way, 
in  making  any  "  St.  Regis,"  in  1704  ;  in  making 
one  in  Canada,  in  1704,  and  in  making  a  bell, 
carried  to  any  such  place,  from  Deerfield,  in  1704. 

J.  G.  8, 

Elizabeth,  N.  J. 


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North  Carolina. — \H.  M.,  II.,  ix.,  122.]— 
Hon.  D.  L.  Swain  was  appointed  Historical 
Agent  of  the  State  of  North  Carolina,  by 
authority  of  a  Resolution  of  the  Legislature,  in 
1854-5.  He  reported  to  the  Governor,  on  the 
twentieth  of  November,  1855,  and  on  the  first 
of  December,  1856.  In  1857,  a  Resolution  was 
adopted,  continuing  the  agency  and  authoriz- 
ing the  Agent  to  examine  the  public  archives 
and  other  sources  of  information  of  sister 
States,  as  well  as  the  mother  country.  Under 
this  Commission,'  he  visited  Charleston  and 
Columbia.  S.  C,  but  did  not  cross  the  ocean. 

Governor  Swain  was  active  in  making  histor- 
ical collections  to  the  end  of  his  life  ;  but  most 
oi  them  remain  in  private  hands,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  a  MS.  copy  of  Governor  Tryon's 
Letter-book,  obtained  from  Harvard  University, 
and  deposited  in  the  Executive  Office,  in 
Raleigh. 

The  Colonial  historical  documents  which 
were  ordered  to  be  printed  by  the  Legislature, 
in  1861,  were  the  MS.  records  in  the  archives 
at  Raleigh.  The  Resolution  was  rescinded  by 
the  Convention,  which  met  that  Spring;  and 
the  volume  has  never  been  printed. 

F.  P.  B. 

.Chai>el  Hill,  N.  C. 


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[Publishers  find  others  sending  Books  or  Pamphlets  for  the 
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quested to  forward  the  same,  either  direct  to  '■  Henby  B. 
Dawson,  Moekisania,  N.  Y,,"  or  to  Mrssss.  Chatei.es 
Soeebneb  &  Co.,  Booksellers,  654  Broadway,  Ntw  York 
City,  as  shall  be  most  convenient  for  them.l 

1. —  Captain  John  Cleves  Symmes.  Sine  loco,  [.Cincin- 
nati?}   sine  anno.  [1871?J    Octavo,  pp.  £8. 

In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Magazine,  we  called 
tin  attent  i.  of  our  readers  to  the  recent  pub- 
":':tion,  'iv  IWessrs.  Robert  Clarke  &  Co.,  of 
'Cincinnati,  of  two  elegant  volumes  of  Pioneer 
Biographies,  written  by  the  late  venerable 
.James  McBride  of  Hamilton,  Ohio  ;  and,  in 
the  elegant  tract  before  us,  we  find  c:ie  of  that 
series  of  biographies — that  of  Captain  John 
'Cleves  Symmes — separately  printed,  evidently 
for  private  circulation. 

There  was  enough  in  the  character  and 
^career  of  Captain  Symmes  to  entitle  him  to  this 
■distinction ;  and  the  venerable  biographer's 
very  carefully  prepared  and  very  useful  memoir 
will  assume,  in  this  separate  form,  its  jiroper 
glace  on  .the  Catalogues  of  Libraries,  as  an  im- 


portant addition  to  the  local  historical,  the 
military,  and  the  scientific  literature  of  the 
country. 

It  is  very  beautifully  printed     and  will  or- 
nament any  library  table. 


B PUBLICATIONS  BY  SOCIETIES. 

2.—  Catalogue  of  the  Museum  and  Gallery  of  Art  of  the 
New  lork  Historical  Society.  1871-  New  York:  Printed 
for  the  Society.    1871.    Octavo,  pp.  iv.,  72,  68. 

A  new  edition  oi  the  Society's  Catalogue, 
with  the  proper  references  to  the  various  addi- 
tions which  have  been  made  to  its  Museum  and 
Galleries,  during  the  past  few  months. 

There  is  nothing  particularly  noteworthy  in 
the  work ;  but  collectors  and  others  of  our 
readers  will  be  interested  in  the  knowledge  of 
its  appearance. 


3. — Ancient  Earth  Forts  of  the  Cuyahoga  Valley, 
Ohio,  by  Col.  Chas.  Whittlesey,  President  of  the  Western 
Reserve  and  Northern  Ohio  Historical  Society.  Published 
for  the  Society  by  a  Gentleman  of  Cleveland.  Cleveland: 
1871.    Octavo,  pp.  40. 

We  have  already  noticed,  in  the  Magazine, 
the  commendable  beginning  which  Colonel 
Whittlesey  has  made  to  bring  his  floating  con- 
tributions to  American  history  and  American 
science — which  have  been  common  plunder, 
year  after  year,  for  every  one  who  has  been 
disposed  to  steal  from  others  instead  of  pro- 
ducing for  himself— into  such  shapes  as  shall 
secure  for  him  as  their  author,  the  credit,  to 
which  he  is  justly  entitled:  and  we  suppose 
the  tract  before  us  is  one  of  that  series  of  pro- 
ductions. 

It  contains,  First,  a  sketch  of  the  History  of 
the  Surreys ;  Second,  a  brief  essay  on  the  An- 
cient Inhabitants  of  the  MississippiYalley  and  the 
Lake  Regions ;  Fourth,  a  Comparison  of  the 
Pre-historic  Races,  in  Europe  and  America; 
Fifth,  careful  descriptions  of  the  various 
earth-forts  of  the  Cuyahoga-valley,  in  Ohio, 
illustrated  with  well-executed  plates  and  maps  ; 
Sixth,  similar  descriptions  of  the  ancient 
Pits,  or  Caches,  and  the  Rock  inscriptions, 
also  illustrated,  and  of  other  relics  of  the  by- 
gone races  who  have  inhabited  the  western 
country. 

No  more  interesting  and  important  service 
could  be  done  for  American  Archaeology  and 
History  than  this,  which  Colonel  Whittlesey 
has  done  in  this  tract ;  and  the  completeness 
and  evident  accuracy  of  his  descriptions,  so 
amply  and  judiciously  illustrated,  induce  us  to 
hope  that  other  works,  of  like  character,  will 
soon  be  forthcoming. 

The  tract,  in  all  its  parts,  is  very  neatly 
executed. 


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